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Title: The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc. : with a large number of recipes
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Magner, D. (Dennis), b. 1833
Subjects: Horses Horses
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : Review and Herald Pub. House
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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th, of this city, who has had excellent success in themanagement of this disease, informs the writer that he has re-cently had two very severe cases, both idiopathic. The worst,owned by W. M. Merritt, of this city, had run four days, withjaws entirely fixed, before being called. His treatment is, firstsharp cathartic, aloes, with enemas to encourage action of bowels,with half-drachm doses of belladonna, in some cases even more; EABIES, OE MADNESS. 931 in this case, being a very desperate one, he gave drachm doses ofsoUd extract, every three to four hours, with counter irritationover the spine, and generous nourishment as described. He of course found great difficulty in giving the medicine, be-ing compelled to push the aloes up into the mouth with a piece ofstick, until a sufficient amount was taken up to produce a freeaction of the bowels. Rabies, or Madness. This dreadful malady is, providentially, of rare occurrence,and does not arise spontaneously in horses, but is usually the ef-
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l^iG. S04:.—Symptom of rabies. feet of the bite of a mad dog. Symptoms.—The attack is usually sudden, as it is severe,and seldom extends beyond the third day. It usually appearsfrom two io eight weeks after the animal has been bitten. Some-times it comes on gradually; he is observed to be dull, and his man-ner is peculiar. The other animals in the barn-yard seem afraid ofhim; he is observed to snap and bite at poultry, pigs, sheep, orother horses when roused, then relapses into his dull state again.In a short time his eyes become staring, wild, and excited; andhe runs at anything that comes in his way. At other times it comes on suddenly, with all the fur)^ of gen-uine madnesrb; he becomes wild and frantic, bites and tears ateverything within his reach; he rears up, kicks and plunges. 932 DISEASES AND THEIE TKEATMENT. presently gets down, gnaws at his own legs or sides, snaps atanything that is pushed towards him, gets up and runs withopen mouth at any one who goes near him; palsy

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